GUJRANWALA: Police claimed on Sunday to have arrested a teacher of an academy in Wazirabad on the charge of raping a student and blackmailing her through objectionable videos.

It is learnt that the shocking news proved fatal for the girl’s father who worked in Kuwait.

The suspect who was running an academy in Nizamabad locality of Wazirabad allegedly raped the student and made her videos through which he blackmailed her for four months and threatened to kill her younger brother.

The girl told her mother about the incident and she complained to the Wazirabad Saddar police who arrested the suspect and seized his mobile phone and laptop. During investigation, police found a video that confirmed the rape incident.

A case was registered against the perpetrator under section 376 PPC.

Published in Dawn, June 15th, 2020

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